Paul Goodwin is a curator, researcher and educator based in London. Goodwin’s research focuses on African diaspora art since 1980 and globalisation in contemporary art production. From 2008 to 2012 as a curator at Tate Britain he directed the pioneering Cross Cultural Programme that explored questions of migration and globalisation in contemporary British art. His curatorial projects include a number of internationally significant exhibitions including: Migrations: Journeys into British Art, Tate Britain 2012; Thin Black Line(s), Tate Britain, 2011; Coming Ashore, 2011, Berardo Collection Museum in Lisbon, Portugal; Afro Modern: Journeys Through the Black Atlantic (consultant curator), Tate Liverpool, 2010; Underconstruction, Hospital Julius De Matos, Lisbon, Portugal, 2009. He is the Co-Lead Investigator (with Prof Ming Tiampo) of the Trans-Atlantic Platform for the Social Sciences and Humanities funded international research project: Worlding Public Cultures: The Arts and Social Innovation as well as co-founder of the Transnational and Transcultural Arts and Culture Exchange network (TRACE). Recent curatorial projects include: W.E.B. DuBois: Charting Black Lives (House of Illustration, London, UK, 2019, Illustration Embassy, Amsterdam, NL 2021), We Will Walk: Art and Resistance in the American South (Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK, 2020) and Untitled: Art on the Conditions of Our Time, Chapter 2 (touring, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK, Feb. 2021). He is a Trustee (Director) of Lux Moving Image and The Africa Centre in London, an Honorary Fellow of Wadham College, University of Oxford, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Honorary Fellow of the Franco-British Council. Goodwin is currently Professor and Chair of Contemporary Art & Urbanism and Director of TrAIN Research Centre (Transnational Art, Identity & Nation) at the University of the Arts London where he also teaches on the MA Fine Art programme at Chelsea College of Arts.

Jean-François Chougnet (France) is the artistic director of FUSO and has dedicated his career to cultural policies. He was Managing Director of Villette, Paris (2001-2006). In 2005, he was the General Commissioner of the Year of Brazil in France. He directed the Berardo Foundation in Lisbon from 2007 to 2011. In 2011, Jean-François Chougnet became CEO of Marseille-Provence Capital of European Culture 2013. Since 2014 he is the President of the Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée, in Marseille, France.

Yuri Firmeza is a professor of the Cinema and Audiovisual course at the Federal University of Ceará (Brazil), where he is a member of the Laboratory of Audiovisual Studies and Experimentation. Doctoral candidate in Multimedia Art at the University of Lisbon and collaborating member of CIEBA (Center for Research and Studies in Fine Arts). He organized, together with Clara Bastos, Leonardo Mouramateus and Érico Araújo Lima, the seminar and the book “The work of ruins: genealogies, fictions, (re)montages” and together with Pablo Lobato the book "What exactly do you do, when you do or hope to do curatorship?". He has participated in film festivals and exhibitions in several cities in Brazil and abroad, including the 31st São Paulo Biennial; 14th Biennale Jogja: Stage of Hopelessness – Yogyakarta / Indonesia; 21st Videoex – International Experimental Film & Video Festival Zurich/ Switzerland; 64th and 62nd International Short Film Festival Oberhausen/Germany, 11th Mercosul Biennial and the individual exhibition Turvações Estratigráficas, at the Rio de Janeiro Art Museum (MAR).

André Laranjinha (b. 1977) lives and works in São Miguel. He has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Lisbon and works in cinema, video, visual arts, graphic arts and illustration. He is co-founder of Alice ’s House atelier, together with graphic designer Júlia Garcia.

Among his films are: Wine (2018); Stone Walls (2017); Clarissas (2016); Bread (2014); Slaughter (2011); Negro Island (2010); Nature and Ingeniousness (2009) and Pilgrimages from São Miguel (2009).